Anantara Si Kao Resort must leave after losing final legal battle to the state

By Thai PBS

 

 

Anantara Si Kao Resort and Spa, a luxury resort located on a 37-rai beachfront land in Si Kao district of Trang province will now become a legend of “untouched paradise” for tourists after the Supreme Court ruled it encroached on forest reserve and ordered it to move out.

 

After almost five years of legal dispute, the Supreme Court on Thursday (Jan 26) upheld the Appeals Court’s ruling that the luxury hotel encroached on forest reserves and protected mangroves forest in Tambon Mai Fad of Sikao district.

 

The court ordered the owner of the resort, JBB Co Ltd, to remove it’s facilities out of the area and ordered the Land Department to nullify the land ownership documents because they were illegitimately issued.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/anantara-si-kao-resort-must-leave-losing-final-legal-battle-state/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-01-26

That's a great pity, it's a nice resort and we've enjoyed staying at many times. I could think of so many crappy Thai resort developments that should be bulldozed, but the Anantara Si Kao resort isn't one of them.

3 hours ago, Stocky said:

That's a great pity, it's a nice resort and we've enjoyed staying at many times. I could think of so many crappy Thai resort developments that should be bulldozed, but the Anantara Si Kao resort isn't one of them.

 

"Hat Chao Mai national park chief Narong Kong-ead, who represents the department in the case, said after hearing the final ruling that he would proceed with more lawsuits for the revocation of the illegally-issued land ownership documents as there are still many business operators encroached on national park and protected forest in Trang province."

 

No doubt it is "nice", the accompanying article describes it as "luxury".

 

"Nice" resorts encroaching on forest reserves and protected mangroves........good?, but not so "nice" resorts encroaching........bad?

 

 

 

 

Well the main road and bridge cut straight through, I'm at a loss to work out what "protected mangroves" it actually encroached on. The resort occupies the strip of land between the coast and the road. It sits amongst the casuarina trees rather than the mangroves.

 

Is anyone at the land dept or the people that sold the land in any trouble over this?

 

Its not like this resort was built based on squatters rights, so who allowed it to happen? 

If  the  application  of  law  says  so  then as an example  of  process  it   must be. No problem   with  that  in terms  of law  and  penalty  against  illegal  entreprenuralism. 

But  why such a  facility  need  be  destroyed  rather  than  conversion  or  utilization as a hospice or similar  for  the  not  haves  in Thai  society.

Yeah,  yeah.  Pipe  dream  I  know.

I imagine some ex land office employees may need to lay low for a bit.

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This past week an inspection following complaints by local residents against Sukhawadee House, an ostentatious Buddhism-themed tourist attraction in Pattaya found that some 1.76 hectares (4.35 acres) of its total 12.8hectares (31.63 acres) site was illegally occupying land reclaimed from the sea and therefore classified as encroaching on public land.

 

Local authorities have ordered Sukhawadee House to remove the illegally built structures and to stop closing public roads for its own use while they consider what other action to take, in what promises to be a test of how equally Thai law is applied.

 

The drawn out legal battle and subsequent conviction for encroachment of protected forest and mangroves also takes some of the shine off Anantara Resort & Spa’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme which, according to the company, ‘tirelessly works to preserve the amazing destinations that we call home’.

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Source Court Orders Thailand Anantara Resort Demolished

good

15 hours ago, orchis said:

good

????

At what level is this good for anyone?

 

The level of intrusion on the national park is minimal. Whilst I agree there is a need to prevent encroachment and to prosecute offenders the penalties ought to be measured against the damage done.  Seeking to turn the clock back  is unrealistic, there is no way that this development is going to be undone and the area returned to pristine nature, that's not how Thailand works. If it does actually get demolished, rather than given to family & friends, the building rubble will be dumped somewhere along the road into the mangrove swamp. What jagged remains will soon be occupied by squatters who'll erect some temporary shacks and litter the place with discarded plastic.

 

Meanwhile the hundred odd employees will be out of work.

 

Win - win, I think not.

 

Better to have made the company responsible purchase an equivalent piece of land adjacent to the park in another area and have that rehabilitated and incorporated into the park.

 

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